New Ulm weekly review., 1887-10-12

up to speak to an audience, more. completely
in sympathy with him and his great mission.
/ DAvHTI's SPEECH
/ thank you for the honor Of addressing the.
/ general assembly of the Knights Of labor
Your actions and looks tell me in advance OF the.
| sympathy which 7 trust will. be given official
/ expression later. came here to bespeak your
Isympathy for Ireland, There are plenty of
reasons why we should obtain for Ireland the
i ,ganization. We seek to- obtain for Ireland the
full right OF industry aud the principles Of
agrarian Justice Ireland is agricultural. We
want land system that shall ba consistent
with the lovers Of human Justice rather s an
the selfish laws Of an hereditary aristocracy and
gTasplnR monopolies. We seek to accomplish
people and an Irish~ parliament can do the
work Il they have q chance. Our movement
Tor reform has helped similar movements else
Where. The working people of England, S6ot-
land and Wales are friendly to our fight for home
rule We have called attention to the injustice
OF English andlordlsm and to It's importation to
America Some Of the evils Of our land system
have stolen Into your country, but railroad land
robbers and monopolists find it more difficult to
steal your land than before the land league was,
formed So you are somewhat Indebted to the.
Irish movement. The protection Of the interests
OF labor is fast becoming the chief problem OF
statesmanship, and we in Ireland are f3hting
the battle Of industrial life all over the world
The struggle OF the masses against the classes is
the same everywhere. One of eur national
| needs is to keep the people at home and
! stop the tide of enforced emigration. Ireland
has room for 15,O0OOOO people There are only
| 1000. 900 there now, where there used to be
| 100000 AT this rate Ireland will soon be de-
populated, even within generation. Ireland
may have become name SYNONYMOUS with
nHt as G county has
| free, we think we have right to public recO9-
n1t1on IN our enaeavor to possess our patrimony.
through in centuries of persecution. In all that
time our people have no record of
crime committed by them against human
systematically carried on the ors work Of e1e ,1.
patriation. England's territorial aristocracy
is threatened by our movement and thinks
| expatrlatlon the only escape from the danger.
Refusing to acquiesce in cowardly subservience
| is one OF our crimes. and immigration becomes
the method by which Englands policy of ex
patriatiop is carried out No country stands
more in need of labor than ours. But England's
| policy drives it across the Atlantic TOR the en-
I ployment it is denied at home. We are driven
/ to poverty by laws expressly passed against our
manufacturing-an atrocfousiy unjust and cow
ardly policy. Emigration under normal condi-
| tlons would be right, but no economic necessity
exists for 1t, but the reverse. Ireiands thou
sands Of acres are suffering FOR want of cultiva-
tlon: When labor reaches your shores it is inn
| poyerished. 1t seeks employment in Eastern
! cities competes with you and conflicts with your
| working classes. England is really doing her
best to reduce your wage rate to the low rate
/
running Ireland are also trying to drive English
! born labor abroad. England is thus killing two
birds with one stone, Kidding herself Of the
| to her level Of wages. The workers claim that
the idle and do-nothing classes should GO Jap
An ia is an
give official expression against the coercion poll
icy you may offend the a1istoeraey. but not the
g here appeal ptao for Toolg your nelP euppoqs s9p
You cannot be Indifferent to the wrongs Of
| in the government You are better of. The
government is loyal to you. and you to it, The
eyes OF The laDoring classes of Europe are. upon
organization, loyal to the constitution of your
country, working without interference from the
governments, gives US pride and pleasure We
view it with interest and expectancy: the classes
| view it with alarm. In no part Of the warld
have you more powerful enemies than in Lon
don The story OF the forcing the
slaved India, the bombardment Of Alex
andria, are samples of what has been
It is the same power doing all this that is ruin
ing Ireland. It fears the Irish policy much, but
it fears the solidarity of Irish, Scotch and Eng
llsh labor more. What a scene is presented to
| the friend OF human liberality to-day in the
Irish nation! FreedomSot speech is denied, the
jury trial is abolished, the rights of the press
are trampled under foot to-day in our Irish
/ home Irish cabins are wrecked by crowbar
brigades, English bayonets driving the poor from
their COTS murder takes place at Mitchellstown
and editors are imprisoned because they strive
to sLeak boldly and truly for human liberty
Irish Natlonalsts are entitled in justice to pur-
sue the course they do Scotland and England
| largely sympathize with us and we are war
| ranted in believing that here in the home of
freedom. where labors rights are respected and
labor problems solved as never heretofore, we
shall not be denied the sympathy from your
| grand organization that our necessities and
calamities justly claim I thank you for this
opportunity it is not impertinent. pray you
| so that your enemies may be disappointed, and
your friends have the happiness of knowing that
good has been accomplished
| RoUSNG RESOLUTIONS.
A vote of thanks was extended Mr.. Dayitt
with will, and Mr.. Powderly then offered
these ringing resolutions:
! Whereas, The Knights of Labor in 1oval ad.
| herence to the principles enunciated in the
| declaration OF the independence of the United
States. believing that every other nation shouId
possess, as an inalienable prerogatiye. the right
In its people to lite and the pursuit OF happiness;
and. 4
OF workers which seeks to obtain the full pro-
lection Of just and enlightened laws for the
rights and interests of the laboring masses Of
this continent,
Resolved. That his general assembly Of our
order afirms the right Of the people Of Ireland
to that national independence for which they
nave STRUGGLED so steadfastly and so long; that
we deslre 60 place on record an expression of
our strongest condemnation of the barbar-
qus acts by which England's rulers in
Ireland are attempting, by the violation
OF all principles OF civilized government, to
suppress legitimate efforts of the Irish people to
obtain home rule and such other reforms as will
supply every national safeguard to the interests
OF the classes OF that country. That we con-
demn as dlsgraceful to any civilized government
the laws and systems Of which the agricultural
workers Of Ireland, being the great majority Of
the Inhabitants are Systematically reduced 10 a
Gondltlou bordering upon starvation, prior to
| being evlcted from their homes, and forced
under these conditions to bring to this and
other lands, what long years of tyranny ana in
1 and be it ;
Resolved. That we convey to the people of Ire
iand and their trusted leader, through Michael
Davltt, the assurance, of our heartfelt sympathy
| IN their trials and suff ring in their country.
i1 wn1cn IS that OF justice and humanity: that we